Sport: The Angel

Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a
nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out
of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir
in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in
wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this
interloper was enough to send some skedaddling.

Readers of LIFE, however, recognized him at a glance. He was the Angel,
an awesome, Continental wrestler introduced pictorially to the U. S. by
LIFE last September, while he was...